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abou93
14,318 PointsHow do I host a flask web app online?
how I would I format or host py and html files on cpanel to be viewed on a website?
3 Answers
Geoff Parsons
11,667 PointsLooks like Heroku supports flask. Here's a tutorial on getting started with python on heroku.
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherDigital Ocean, Heroku, and AWS are all good places to host Flask apps. I think it's even possible on places like DreamHost and ASmallOrange. Flask takes a bit more work than PHP or HTML but it's not an insurmountable task.
detachedhead
13,750 PointsI really like PythonAnywhere. It is definitely easy to get up and running.
Does anyone have any thoughts on it or can point out some of its downsides?
Geoff Parsons
11,667 PointsGeoff Parsons
11,667 PointsActually looks like that's an old tutorial, here's the new one they link to there: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-python#introduction
abou93
14,318 Pointsabou93
14,318 Pointsthank you! yeah some have suggested heroku, I thought it'd be as simple as throwing the files in a public_html folder lol. gonna have to do some reading
Geoff Parsons
11,667 PointsGeoff Parsons
11,667 PointsIt'll take a little more to get it set up initially but once you're done heroku is as easy as pushing your code up to a git repository (because that's literally all you have to do). It's quite easy once it's up and running smoothly and you never even have to leave your terminal window. :)